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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23501, 16 May 1938, Page 12

“ The momentous question is whether the doctrine of force shall become enthroned once more and bring in its wake a relapse into barbarism, or whether this and other peaceful nations shall work unceasingly, singly, or in co-operation with each other, to promote and preserve law, order, morality, and justice as the unshakeable bases of international relations,” said the American Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull, in a recent speech. For the sake of the best interests of our people we must maintain our strength, our courage, our moral standards, our influence in world a flairs. Only by making our reasonable contribution to a firm establishment of a world order based on law can we keep the problem of our own security in true perspective and discharge our responsibility to ourselves —to America of to-day and America of to-morrow. No other course would be worthy of our past or of the potentialities of this great democracy.”